Reasons Why Google Slaps Our Pagerank
Google updates our pagerank once every 3-4 months, last pagerank updated was July, I got my PR2 and I was very happy with that. Unfortunately, I lost my pagerank due to selling text link. Everytime Google updates webmasters’ and bloggers’ pagerank, of course there will be someone happy and someone sad, some gain their PR and some lost their PR. Look for future, not temporary money and happy.
For those who lost their PR like me, of course there was some other factors that Google slapped our PR. I noticed that Google is very strict on those who sell text link on their blog, Google has very good system to detect it and know that you’re doing something that against their rules.
Reasons That Make Google Slap Our Pagerank
1) Selling Text Link
Obviously, Google’s webmaster guide has stated it clearly that selling text links can lose your pagerank. But sometimes money blind your eyes, you can make some money, but it’s temporary. You won’t a cent after you lose your PR, and you lost traffic due to decreasing of search engine ranking. You can sell text links without losing your PR, but you have to play with their rules.
2) Excessively of Outbound Link
Link exchange is good in improving pagerank and traffic, but excessive of outbound link can cause you lose your PR. Make sure your outbound link is worth linking, be sure your buddy didn’t penalized by Google. Make sure the site you link to is relevant and quality site. Perhaps you can build up fresh and great content first, if your readers found that they would like to share your articles in their blog and link to you, this is the best link ever, because Google love it!
3) Widgetbucks
Recently I found an article in Jeremy’s blog about it. This is a short sentence quoted by Jeremy in Terms & Conditions from Widgetbucks.
Back-links placed by Mpire in the HTML code must not be removed.
I think this is the reason that why Google banned widgetbucks. You can’t see any site from widgetbucks in Google search anymore. I believe that those who lost their PR, maybe one of the reason is Widgetbucks.
4) Unauthorized Program
Never use unauthorized program or software to submit your articles, it’s very easy and fast. By clicking your mouse in 1 time and you can get your articles to be sent to thousand of directories. Remember, it’s against Google’s Terms of Service.
5) Spamming Article With Irrelevant Keywords
We also call it keyword stuffing, which mean spamming your keyword everywhere without relation with the article topic. Other than spamming keywords, hiding text in your article may kill your blog too. Google hates it very much, Google want us to build fresh and great content to readers, at the same time Google want us to do little work for them as well.
Pagerank is very important for a blog because it affects our search engine ranking, search engine traffic, and money as well. Some of them don’t like PR because they think that having PR or don’t have PR is still the same, I don’t agree it because I realized that pagerank really affects search engine ranking, because the ranking for my niche has dropped to few pages behind. It proved that pagerank is really important for me and everyone too.
Do you have any ideas on why Google slaps our Pagerank? Please don’t be shy to share it with us and we can keep an eye on it.